Friday, December 30, 2011

signing off 2011

Asnida seems keen on torturing me with supposedly unintentional spicy dinners on every Wednesday. At some point I won't even blink anymore while eating hot chilis like snacks.

Last week we were having an Orphaned Land DVD viewing with my Israeli friend Shay on my birthday when all of a sudden a group of friends/colleagues crashed our party. Definitely a fun night and now I have a mechanical darts board to play with :-)
A few nights later we hosted an X-mas party with dinner and movie ("Arthur Christmas") which was a blast. Asnida cooked two Malaysian dishes which were unanimously praised.

On 2nd X-mas day I broke my longest dive record with a 63 minute long shore dive with Monchu and Shay. We saw plenty sealife and the visibility was still pretty decent. The water temperature wasn't too cold but I was glad that I wore two wetsuits. Still, after more than an hour underwater my bladder was about to explode so good thing I didn't have much air left anyway.

The last few days we've booked everything for our London trip, flights, hotels and so on. We'll be spending about 7 days in London from 2 to 8 of April. But we'll also attend a gig in the Netherlands on April 1 so that will be a very quick mini-trip within the London trip :-)
The only thing still missing are the Boltfest 2012 e-tickets which have been mailed to both my yahoo and gmail accounts yet have not arrived in either inbox or spam folder. I have a credit card statement as proof that I did pay so let's see how this will unravel.

No big plans for New Year's Eve other than staying in and watching the fireworks from either our balcony or the building's roof (if it's opened). I'll try to shoot some vids with my camcorder so we'll find out whether the often highly praised Madeira fireworks are indeed magnificent.

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